Write POPM rating tags back into MP3 files?

[cannondale0815]

I recently upgraded from 2.0.1 to the 2007-05-27 T3CH build of XBMC and am happy to see that the POPM ratings tag that is stored in my MP3 files (through the help of MediaMonkey) is now supported. I also realized that moving the directional pad up/down lets you alter the rating through XBMC itself. However, it doesn't seem to write the changed ratings back into the POPM field but appears to store them in the XBMC library database only.

Is this a correct observation, or has anyone else been able alter the POPM rating through XBMC?

[Jezz_X]

its a correct obsevation

[jmarshall]

And no, we're not going to get into writing tags if we can possibly avoid it.

Cheers,
Jonathan

[cannondale0815]

Thanks for the replies. jmarshall, why would that be such a bad thing to allow writing the POPM tag back into the file?

[jmarshall]

ID3 tag writing is a mess. We don't particularly want to go there if we can possibly avoid it - there's lots of possible issues.

Cheers
Jonathan

[cannondale0815]

Thanks Jonathan. I agree that manipulating files can come at the expense of corrupting them, especially when writing over a network.

How about supporting a flat text file export of all ratings that can then be used in conjunction with other tools, say mp3tag, to tag my mp3 collection based on the ratings I gave in XBMC?

-J

[jmarshall]

A patch is ofcourse welcome.

I personally don't have the time at this point to do something like this.

It'd be easy enough to do - you may in fact be able to do it via an sql db program perhaps.